This week saw the first leg of the semi-finals in the Champions League, the prestigious tournament that rewards the best soccer team in Europe. It’s a spectacle that brings together the continent’s best teams and their fans for a single purpose.
Widespread rioting in the north of Nigeria greeted the result of the country’s presidential election on Saturday 16 April, which saw the incumbent Goodluck Jonathan win in a landslide victory.
The press revelations of claims made by our former Finance Minister Brian Lenihan that the European Central Bank and the European Union played the decisive role in forcing the bank bailout in the form of the bank guarantee only confirms what our Repudiate the
Not many people today speak about the 5.4 million people murdered in DR Congo in the past decade, due to the invasion of the country by Rwanda. It came in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide, when 800,000 Tutsis and many Hutus were murdered in three months
Support for nationalist parties with xenophobic sentiments is on the rise across Europe. Radical right politics have proven their strong influence particularly in Austria (where the Austrian Freedom Party and the Alliance for the Future of Austria won 28 per
Our flight from Bergamo in Italy departed on schedule and took just a couple of hours to reach the Emerald Isle. Finally we were on our way to Ireland to celebrate Easter! On our plane the passengers comprised mainly Italian citizens, who broke into applause
It is an old adage that all men (and women) are born equal. But how practicable is that maxim? I was watching a TV documentary recently on the right of women to decide the terms of childbirth. I was gutted to see the inhuman treatment meted out to a Hungarian